Esdra 2:1-8

1 Questi son gli uomini della provincia che tornarono dalla cattività, quelli che Nebucadnetsar, re di Babilonia, avea menati schiavi a Babilonia, e che tornarono a Gerusalemme e in Giuda, ognuno nella sua città.

2 Essi vennero con Zorobabel, Jeshua, Nehemia, Seraia, Reelaia, Mardocheo, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baana. Numero degli uomini del popolo d’Israele.

3 Figliuoli di Parosh, duemila centosettantadue.

4 Figliuoli di Scefatia, trecento settantantadue.

5 Figliuoli di Arah, settecento settantacinque.

6 Figliuoli di Pahath-Moab, discendenti di Jeshua e di Joab, duemila ottocentododici.

7 Figliuoli di Elam, milleduecento cinquantaquattro.

8 Figliuoli di Zattu, novecento quarantacinque.

Esdra 2:1-8 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZRA 2

This chapter contains a list of those that went up from Babylon to Jerusalem, of their leaders, their chief men, princes and priests, Ezr 2:1,2 of the people, described by their families, towns, and cities, and number of persons, Ezr 2:3-35, of the priests, Levites, and Nethinims, Ezr 2:36-58, and of those that could not make out their genealogy, people and priests, Ezr 2:59-63, and then the sum total of the whole congregation is given, Ezr 2:64, besides men and maidservants, singing men and women, and cattle of divers sorts, Ezr 2:65-67, and the chapter is closed with an account of the freewill offerings of the principal men towards the building of the temple, and of the settlement of the people in their respective cities, Ezr 2:68-70.